2026 Pepper Varieties

We’ve got a fantastic selection of LOTS of peppers started this year. Let’s hope the seed starting mix isn’t defective like last year! We’re using a new brand to solve that problem.

There’s a wide selection of bell peppers available in a lot of colors. For those of you who have trouble eating green peppers, I’ve got some special peppers that start out cream or lime. They don’t have that chlorophyll taste that green peppers have and that makes it harder for some to digest.

There is also a great list of pimento peppers – little peppers that look like mini pumpkins and are crunchy and sweet.

And don’t forget pickling peppers – so yummy – and we’ve got some really great ones from all around the world.

Check out the incredible amount of frying peppers that are super for grilling or just eating or cooking. There’s some great Italian heirloom ones in that category plus there are several Shishito varieties this year.We’ve also added a lot of my favorites - roasting peppers - that tend to be sweeter and have incredible flavor.

There’s also a nice selection of peppers for making your own paprika – it will have sooo much more flavor than store bought. They’re available in both sweet and with heat. Plus it’s fun to make. Try cooking or grilling with the peppers. They add a little warmth and a lot of flavor! Smoking them adds even more flavor and that make fantastic paprika.

A lot of the great roasting and paprika peppers come from Hungary and Turkey and I’ve searched hard to find good ones for you.

For those of you making salsa and hot sauce, there’s a lot of hot peppers specially chosen for that purpose. There’s even some jalapeno and habanero peppers that have NO heat so you can add more of the flavor without upping the heat in your salsas. And we’ve got just a few of some fun striped habaneros. The hot peppers are pretty much listed in order of increasing heat levels.

There’s a very large selection of Hispanic peppers ranging from Poblano and Anaheim to Jalapeno, Habanero and Serrano.

There’s some of the super hots for you pepper heads that REALLY like the heat.

For fun and color, we have some very nice decorative peppers – most are hot but a couple are not hot at all.

The peppers are listed as they will be displayed in the South Hoop House.